Where to get your free donuts on National Donut Day

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Those intrepid journalists at TIME magazine have performed an invaluable national service by reporting on this vital issue: Today is National Doughnut Day. What, you didn’t know the first Friday in June was National Doughnut Day? Now you do. More importantly, now you can find out which doughnut chains around the country are doling out freebies all day long to acknowledge the hol-e-day. Krispy Kreme, which created a National Doughnut Day event page on Facebook, says people can stop into a... Read more

Why should you go to Mass? Here are some reasons

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Below, a very effective video from the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. Read more

Priest suspended for leading breakaway parish — UPDATED

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Details: The Rev. Robert Marrone has been suspended from priestly ministry for disobeying an order by Cleveland Catholic Bishop Richard Lennon to remove himself as pastor of a breakaway congregation, according to a letter the priest wrote to his followers. Marrone and his congregation, the Community of St. Peter, broke away from the diocese to set up their own worship space in a commercial building in August 2010, four months after Lennon closed their church, St. Peter, in downtown Cleveland. The... Read more

“This is the real war on women”

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

That’s how one Republican described the vote this afternoon that will not ban abortions based on sex selection: The House on Thursday fell short in an effort to ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus as Republicans and Democrats made an election-year appeal for women’s votes. The legislation would have made it a federal crime to perform or force a woman to undergo a sex-based abortion, a practice most common in some Asian countries where families wanting sons... Read more

Mary’s journey: a homily for The Visitation

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 5:02 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

For the Feast of the Visitation, here’s a portion of my homily from 2007 from the Solemnity of the Assumption, which used the same gospel reading. +++ The gospel today begins with a journey. “Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste…” This time of year, I think, a lot of us can appreciate the idea of taking a trip. Millions of us are headed to the beach or the mountains, National Parks or Disney World. But... Read more

Mary’s journey: a homily for The Visitation

Last updated on: May 31, 2012 at 11:40 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

“It’s a hit piece in the service of another agenda”

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Mark Shea, as usual, cuts right to the heart of the matter concerning this report about Cardinal Timothy Dolan in the New York Times: There is much dudgeon the article. There is no dudgeon–none whatsoever–about the fact that exactly the same tactic is used to get rid of pervy public school teachers. This, and the lionization of the Right Sort of Roman makes me rather inclined to think this a specimen of the Times indulging in fake dudgeon because of Dolan’s leadership against the... Read more

How the Vatican marks the end of Mary’s month

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

If you can’t be in Rome, check out this video preview, courtesy CNS: Read more

Why Anna Quindlen quit the church — UPDATED

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

I’ve always appreciated Anna Quindlen’s wry, elegantly shaped prose, going back to her “Life in the 30s” column she wrote for the Times back in the ’80s. I read her sporadically after she went to Newsweek, and dipped into a couple of her novels when she tried her hand at fiction. So when I came across this item, it left me saddened and disappointed: Author Anna Quindlen has been in the news lately, promoting a new book called Lots of Candles,... Read more

“The Clan of the Red Beanie”

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

That’s the oh-so-pwecious term of endearment that writer Charles Pierce uses for Catholic bishops here. Perhaps he’d like to come up with a similar soubriquet for rabbis? Read more